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Joseph Thornton to Animals

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0.676
  1. Symmetry facilitated the evolution of heterospecificity and high-order stoichiometry in vertebrate hemoglobin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Jan 28; 122(4):e2414756122.
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    Score: 0.057
  2. Fitness effects but no temperature-mediated balancing selection at the polymorphic Adh gene of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 10 22; 116(43):21634-21640.
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    Score: 0.039
  3. Ancient mechanisms for the evolution of the bicoid homeodomain's function in fly development. Elife. 2018 10 09; 7.
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    Score: 0.037
  4. Multinucleotide mutations cause false inferences of lineage-specific positive selection. Nat Ecol Evol. 2018 08; 2(8):1280-1288.
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    Score: 0.036
  5. Reconstructing Ancient Proteins to Understand the Causes of Structure and Function. Annu Rev Biophys. 2017 05 22; 46:247-269.
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    Score: 0.033
  6. Evolution of DNA specificity in a transcription factor family produced a new gene regulatory module. Cell. 2014 Sep 25; 159(1):58-68.
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    Score: 0.028
  7. Vestigialization of an allosteric switch: genetic and structural mechanisms for the evolution of constitutive activity in a steroid hormone receptor. PLoS Genet. 2014 Jan; 10(1):e1004058.
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    Score: 0.026
  8. Evolutionary biochemistry: revealing the historical and physical causes of protein properties. Nat Rev Genet. 2013 Aug; 14(8):559-71.
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    Score: 0.026
  9. Evolution of minimal specificity and promiscuity in steroid hormone receptors. PLoS Genet. 2012; 8(11):e1003072.
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    Score: 0.024
  10. Mechanisms for the evolution of a derived function in the ancestral glucocorticoid receptor. PLoS Genet. 2011 Jun; 7(6):e1002117.
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    Score: 0.022
  11. Lamprey endocrinology is not ancestral. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jan 11; 108(2):E5; author reply E6.
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    Score: 0.021
  12. Protein evolution by molecular tinkering: diversification of the nuclear receptor superfamily from a ligand-dependent ancestor. PLoS Biol. 2010 Oct 05; 8(10).
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    Score: 0.021
  13. Evolution of steroid receptors from an estrogen-sensitive ancestral receptor. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2011 Mar 01; 334(1-2):31-8.
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    Score: 0.021
  14. An epistatic ratchet constrains the direction of glucocorticoid receptor evolution. Nature. 2009 Sep 24; 461(7263):515-9.
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    Score: 0.020
  15. Hormone-activated estrogen receptors in annelid invertebrates: implications for evolution and endocrine disruption. Endocrinology. 2009 Apr; 150(4):1731-8.
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    Score: 0.018
  16. Evolution of hormone signaling in elasmobranchs by exploitation of promiscuous receptors. Mol Biol Evol. 2008 Dec; 25(12):2643-52.
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    Score: 0.018
  17. A mixed branch length model of heterotachy improves phylogenetic accuracy. Mol Biol Evol. 2008 Jun; 25(6):1054-66.
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    Score: 0.018
  18. Mechanistic approaches to the study of evolution: the functional synthesis. Nat Rev Genet. 2007 Sep; 8(9):675-88.
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    Score: 0.017
  19. Crystal structure of an ancient protein: evolution by conformational epistasis. Science. 2007 Sep 14; 317(5844):1544-8.
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    Score: 0.017
  20. The Octopus vulgaris estrogen receptor is a constitutive transcriptional activator: evolutionary and functional implications. Endocrinology. 2006 Aug; 147(8):3861-9.
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    Score: 0.016
  21. Evolution of hormone-receptor complexity by molecular exploitation. Science. 2006 Apr 07; 312(5770):97-101.
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    Score: 0.015
  22. Resurrecting the ancestral steroid receptor: ancient origin of estrogen signaling. Science. 2003 Sep 19; 301(5640):1714-7.
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    Score: 0.013
  23. Evolutionary Shortcuts via Multinucleotide Substitutions and Their Impact on Natural Selection Analyses. Mol Biol Evol. 2023 07 05; 40(7).
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    Score: 0.013
  24. Molecular and structural basis of olfactory sensory neuron axon coalescence by Kirrel receptors. Cell Rep. 2021 11 02; 37(5):109940.
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    Score: 0.011
  25. Contingency and chance erase necessity in the experimental evolution of ancestral proteins. Elife. 2021 06 01; 10.
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    Score: 0.011
  26. Evolution of vertebrate steroid receptors from an ancestral estrogen receptor by ligand exploitation and serial genome expansions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 May 08; 98(10):5671-6.
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    Score: 0.011
  27. A new method to localize and test the significance of incongruence: detecting domain shuffling in the nuclear receptor superfamily. Syst Biol. 2000 Jun; 49(2):183-201.
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    Score: 0.010
  28. Gene family evolution and homology: genomics meets phylogenetics. Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet. 2000; 1:41-73.
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    Score: 0.010
  29. EvoChromo: towards a synthesis of chromatin biology and evolution. Development. 2019 09 26; 146(19).
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    Score: 0.010
  30. Family of neural wiring receptors in bilaterians defined by phylogenetic, biochemical, and structural evidence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 05 14; 116(20):9837-9842.
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    Score: 0.010
  31. Evolution of the androgen receptor: structure-function implications. Bioessays. 1998 Oct; 20(10):860-9.
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    Score: 0.009
  32. A second estrogen receptor from Japanese lamprey (Lethenteron japonicum) does not have activities for estrogen binding and transcription. Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2016 09 15; 236:105-114.
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    Score: 0.008
  33. Evolution of an ancient protein function involved in organized multicellularity in animals. Elife. 2016 Jan 07; 5:e10147.
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    Score: 0.008
  34. The interface of protein structure, protein biophysics, and molecular evolution. Protein Sci. 2012 Jun; 21(6):769-85.
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    Score: 0.006
  35. Evolution of a new function by degenerative mutation in cephalochordate steroid receptors. PLoS Genet. 2008 Sep 12; 4(9):e1000191.
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    Score: 0.005
  36. Structural analyses reveal phosphatidyl inositols as ligands for the NR5 orphan receptors SF-1 and LRH-1. Cell. 2005 Feb 11; 120(3):343-55.
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    Score: 0.004
  37. Estrogen receptors in Xenopus: duplicate genes, splice variants, and tissue-specific expression. Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2003 Aug; 133(1):38-49.
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    Score: 0.003
  38. An automated phylogenetic key for classifying homeoboxes. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2002 Sep; 24(3):388-99.
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    Score: 0.003
  39. Identification of a third distinct estrogen receptor and reclassification of estrogen receptors in teleosts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 Sep 26; 97(20):10751-6.
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    Score: 0.003
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